The issue isn't the portrayal of strippers in isolation. The problem is that Miller doesn't show that he understands why these things are what they are. To put it another way, you can write stories that play with the noir cliches and show them for the silly they are, or you can take them as read. Problem is, Miller…

Perhaps one of the better guides to nuclear war was written in the early 80s. It's called "Nuclear War, What's in it for you" and it gets into some pretty interesting detail.

Not to go too far down the rabbit hole here (I agree that someone who is incapacitated cannot consent, and leave it at that). But the fact is Arbuckle never penetrated her with anything. It is far from clear whether she was drunk or not; Rappe had a history of health problems — cystitis was one — that caused insane…

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That isn't borne out by the numbers. On a per person basis you are far more likely to get killed by a cop if you are black. Case in point: they managed to take Dylann Roof alive, and unharmed. Meanwhile a guy who was driving his own car gets beat up by the cops and might have been killed if nobody was watching.…

Second on the linguistics nerdery!

The firewall though separated investment and commercial (ie retail) banking. And even thoughthe law was old, one thing it stopped banks form doing was using mortgages to fund trading positions and vice versa. It also, by maintaining that separation, made it harder to package mortgages into securities for the…

Most superhero origins are pretty wacky. Though surviving massive ionizing radiation from a "gamma bomb" (which actually describes any reasonably sized nuclear device pretty well anyway) isn't too far fetched, violating conservation of mass because you're having road rage is pretty magical from the getgo.

I agree with this — Christensen is a decent actor with the right director. Reminds me a bit of Mark Wahlberg in that sense — neither of them is a talent that can save a crappy script but given the right direction and writing they are pretty darn good.

A couple of things it's important to note. I should say I was working at a paper in NYC when the trial was happening, so I was a) an adult and b) a reporter when it was going on. (I've actually interviewed Henry Lee, another medical examiner, once, on a different case).

Yeah, I hear you — heck, I am emotionally invested in food I make. But I also feel that if I am cooking for people, for chrissake, make a meal that maximizes enjoyment. I'm glad that friends are willing to work with you. (I might suggest just tell people you have a weird tomato allergy? Not "I'll go into anaphylactic…

Potatoes have a lot of vitamins in them that make it a "miracle crop" of sorts. So yeah, there's a lot that can be done even with a limited diet.

I stand corrected. Either way, it's an indicator that I find pretty useful.

Well, I should say, our bodies adapted pretty quick to staple starches. ThInk of milk (lactose intolerance). In areas where people do not traditionally raise cattle, lactose intolerance is high. So parts of West Africa, Japan, and Southeast Asia or Oceania (among Native people) they have issues digesting milk. On the…

It's pretty salty. DO you live in a place with a large Jewish population? (New York City, for example, has lox like, every freaking where, even in cheap bodegas. But if you live in Iowa I suspect it's harder to come by). Usually the salmon-flavored cream cheese is basically lox and cream cheese in a blender.

Per @Enkidum:disqus as well— salmon is often cooked badly. It's actually supposed to be a teeny teeny bit rare; overcook it and it's that kind'a dryish texture you see on buffets. The rule is (when frying or grilling) that if you see the white fat coming out the side it's probably a little overcooked.

CUrious how you feel about salmon (sliced lox) on cream cheese?

I cook for people a lot. And you know what I do? I ask if people have dietary restrictions, because the last thing I want to do is serve peanut Thai sauce or strawberries and have to do CPR.

It'd be interesting to explore the neurological bases for something like this - I wonder if it's the same class of disorder that causes some folks to experience synesthesia or the inability to recognize faces (except in a different processing system of the brain). Not that it's all a brain wiring issue; there's likely…

Seems to me then that the combination of sort-of-offscreen death and using the character later in cartoons has a precedent and could work, leaving the films free to go along without Fisher.

I think the death off-screen solution, where General Organa says "I'm going to take care of something" and maybe some reaction shot where her voice is on the communicator and everyone knows she blew the hell out of some Imperials would be a great ending, and I don't see why that isn't in fact the simplest to do —…